Even wearing my ex-AWS hat and understanding to some degree the internal complexity of these services, I too am boggled that foundational stuff is still out of

Even wearing my ex-AWS hat and understanding to some degree the internal complexity of these services, I too am boggled that foundational stuff is still out of Virginia and not a separately operated global region for the subset of control-plane dependencies that can’t be refactored into tolerating eventual consistency (such as parts of IAM). We always used to talk a lot about minimising blast radius and there’s been enough time, and enough scale, to fix it. Nevertheless the Guardian’s choice to label self-promoting policy wonks as “experts” is a cringe-inducing reminder that journalists don’t know anything about anything.